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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
employ .
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Examples
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Sometimes Wycliffe employs a Latin word, as Resurrection, at other times he translates it, the Agen-rysynge
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Discuss the ways in which the narrator has learned to write around controversial topics-or topics that might be perceived by the censor as controversial: the ellipses he uses instead of finishing sentences or scenes; the metaphors he employs from the long tradition of Iranian literature; the stream-of-consciousness style he sometimes employs instead of writing realistically.
Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour: Questions 2009
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One of the teaching moments it employs is that whenever a character says ‘If only …’, it comes true.
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Again, this may be justified if you believe V's goals warrant it, but the terrorism V employs is very much a part of our world.
Finally Read V for Vendetta KaneCitizen 2007
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Again, this may be justified if you believe V's goals warrant it, but the terrorism V employs is very much a part of our world.
Archive 2007-02-01 KaneCitizen 2007
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One of the devices the poem employs is the repetition of the word “hit” (which is italicized) to great effect.
First Loves : Major Jackson : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Klein employs dozens of teachers who he's afraid to let near the kids, so he has them sit in what they call "rubber rooms."
Sound Politics: On Math Standards, Expectations, Parenting & "Special Ed" 2006
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Yes, the chain employs many younger people, so hopefully those employed will support their older family members who now are without employment.
The cost of "supers" 2005
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Now I contend that Moses employed the word "rakia" with exactly the same propriety, neither more nor less, as when a Divine now-a-days employs the English word "firmament."
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Once again Hebrew employs repetition for emphasis.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TerryH 2010
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